Re: How to remove permanently mouse driver
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:51:26 +0200, User Debian (newuser.debian@gmail.com) wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:37:16AM +0200, User Debian wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to delete on the permanent basis the mouse driver from
>>> Debian. Any help will be more than welcome ! :)
>>>
>>
>> echo 'blacklist psmouse' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local
>>
>> for a PS/2 mouse. This will prevent loading of the mouse driver on
>> startup. For other mice e.g. USB, you'll need to do the same for the
>> appropriate modules e.g usbmouse, usbhid.
> Thanks for your reply, it worked fine. However I still have the mouse
> arrow cursor on the screen.
>
> In fact in my setup, I have a touchscreen where I would like to make the
> mouse cursor disappear. I thought that in disabling the PS2 mouse it
> would have gone anyway, but did not. Any further help is welcome !
Not sure it it would help but you could try uninstalling the
xserver-xorg-input-mouse package.
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